nationally-acclaimed BGSU New Music & Art Festival for 19 years. She served as chair of the theory and composition department at Interlochen Arts Camp and was a visiting faculty member at . She is currently Distinguished Research professor and chair of the musicology/composition/theory department at Bowling Green State University. Shrude has performed as collaborative pianist with John Sampen since 1972.

Violinist and violist Timothy Christie studied with Andrew Jennings UNIVERSITY OF OREGON • SCHOOL OF MUSIC and Paul Kantor at the University of Michigan, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees respectively. In addition to his musical studies, Beall Concert Hall Tuesday evening Christie completed a second bachelor’s degree in English literature. 8:00 p.m. March 8, 2005 Following his studies at Michigan, he earned a fellowship with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas. He has participated in prominent summer programs such as the Aspen Music Festival, the Banff Centre for the Arts, Musicorda, and the Conductor’s Retreat at Medomak. Today, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON Christie is an active chamber musician and proponent of contemporary music as the violist of the Dexter String Quartet and the solo violist SCHOOL OF MUSIC of the contemporary ensemble Brave New Works. He makes his home in the Pacifi c Northwest where he serves on the violin faculties of the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA, and Lewis and Clark GUEST ARTIST SERIES College in Portland, OR. Christie is a member of the Pacifi c Northwest Ballet Orchestra in Seattle. presents Internationally recognized saxophonist John Sampen is dedicated to the promotion and performance of contemporary art music. His sponsorship of new music has resulted in premieres of over sixty CONTRASTING INVENTIONS works, including commissions by Rands, Subotnick, Cage, Adler and Babbitt. Sampen has also presented fi rst performances of Chamber Music for Strings, Winds, and Piano arrangements by Lutosławski, Stockhausen and Tower. Sampen’s world-wide performances include concerts with the Nürnberg featuring Symphony, the Biel Swiss Symphony, the Osaka Municipal Winds, the Toledo Symphony, the Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia and Maria Sampen, violin the New Mexico Symphony. He has recorded with the Belgian and , piano/composer Swiss National Radio as well as the Capstone, CRI, Neuma and Orion Timothy Christie, viola labels. A clinician for the Selmer Company, Sampen has presented master classes at important universities and conservatories in Asia, John Sampen, Europe and North America. Sampen is presently Distinguished Artist Professor at Bowling Green State University and past president of the North American Saxophone Alliance.

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON * * * 105th Season, 75th program O PROGRAM Renewing the Myth (1988)* Marilyn Shrude John Sampen, saxophone Memorie di Luoghi (2001)* Marilyn Shrude Marilyn Shrude, piano I. Tangled paths (b. 1946) II. Water…still and disturbed III. Born of mountains * Commissioned & Premiered by Sampen and/or Shrude Maria Sampen, violin + Premiere performance with this instrumentation Marilyn Shrude, piano * * * Contrasting Inventions (1999)+ Samuel Adler ABOUT TONIGHT’S ARTISTS (b. 1928) Timothy Christie, viola Maria Sampen holds bachelor and doctoral degrees from the John Sampen, saxophone University of Michigan, where she was a student of Paul Kantor, and a master’s degree from Rice University, where she studied violin with Concerto for Alto Saxophone, Vache Sharafyan Kenneth Goldsmith and chamber music with Paul Katz and Norman Fischer. Sampen has performed as soloist with numerous orchestras Piano and Strings (2000)* (b. 1966) throughout the United States and has appeared as a chamber musician Maria Sampen, violin in Europe, Asia and North America. She performed with Pierre Timothy Christie, viola Boulez and members of the Ensemble Intercontemporain at Carnegie John Sampen, saxophone Hall and served as concertmaster/solo violinist for productions of Marilyn Shrude, piano Bright Sheng’s opera Silver River in Singapore.Sampen has spent her summers performing as a fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and the Tanglewood Music Festival as well at the Mozarteum Sommerakademie in Salzburg, Austria, and the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. INTERMISSION An active proponent of contemporary music, she has collaborated with many composers including , Bright Sheng, John Tierkreis (1976) Karlheinz Stockhausen Harbison, John Zorn, and William Albright. Sampen (b. 1921) spent a summer season as violinist/violist of the Aspen Contemporary Maria Sampen, violin Ensemble and is a member of the contemporary ensemble Brave New Timothy Christie, viola Works. In addition to an active performing schedule, Sampen remains John Sampen, saxophone a dedicated teacher. She is currently assistant professor of violin at Marilyn Shrude, piano the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. Award-winning composer/pianist Marilyn Shrude is an active Joycesketch II (1981) David Schiff proponent of contemporary music in America. Her honors include (b. 1946) the Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards for Orchestral Music, Timothy Christie, viola the Cleveland Arts Prize, Alverno College Alumna of the Year, an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a recent Notturno (1996)* Marilyn Shrude Rockefeller Foundation residency in Italy. Shrude’s compositions In Memoriam Toru Takemitsu have been performed internationally in Prague’s Smetana Hall, Taiwan’s National Concert Hall, Brussels Town Hall, Carnegie Recital Maria Sampen, violin Hall, Merkin Hall, and the Kennedy Center. Shrude is founder of the John Sampen, saxophone MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music and was director of the Marilyn Shrude, piano